My week at work!

I suppose i'm lucky in a way, on Monday my week was looking just the same as any other, drive that truck here, here and here!!!

I could write a full essay on the adventures of this week alone!!!

Not work to me, just dicking around in the snow with a big engine!!!!!

Nothing worries me as i have a Microwave, fridge freezer, loads of food, a night heater, 19" LCD TV with freeview and PS3 and a bed, all a boy needs!!!

In brief i did:

Holyhead>Newport>Nantwich>Huddersfield>Liverpool>Nantwich>Glagow>Edinburgh>Livingstone>Blackburn>Nantwich>Leeds>Bradford>Shorpe>Stockport>Nantwich>Deeside>Holyhead!!!!

Woah awesome! -14'c?! That's NUTS! And another thing, is that the rev counter? Do lorries only rev to 3000rpm?

If u managed to get it to 3000 rpm it would be making one hell of a racket!!!!

Mine is a relative baby at 11 litres, 440bhp and around 2000 nm of torque, peak power and torque at 1650 rpm ish!

Big diesels don't need to rev, and WON'T rev!!!!!

Woah. never really delved into lorry engines at all... hadn't a clue what size they were etc. 2000nm, insane!...

Volvo's latest Biggun is 16 litre, 700 BHP and 3000nm! That would pull Anglesey if u had a strong enough chain!

Hows it going gaz remember seeing your name on the t4 forum think we had a chat @ last yrs bustypes too
are you still running that T4 trailer?
So you got a Mk2 golf aswell good choice i wouldnt be without 1 had 1 since i was 18 n that was a while ago
takes me back everytime i sit in it.
Liking the MAN truck closest thing youl get to a VW lorry hows it handle in the snow?

I seen Trickdaddy threre and thought i know that dude!!!!

trailer sold - More trouble than it was worth - joint project!!!!

Mk2 - cheap fun - and enjoying learning spannering myself!!

MAN truck - least said the better!!!!

How u doing mate, ok???

Im doin ok bud aint been back to work yet since before xmas snowed it big time live on a big hill nr welshpool, broke me audi trying to use it as a snow plow

The trouble with you truck drivers is your all Torque

hehehe, quality pix mate, wher wuz the worst snow then ? scotland suppose ayyy

tidy pics

technique wrote:

tidy pics

what sort of mpg do you get?

fer does those pics are awsome !

Excellent pics mate, hope you didn't get stuck anywhere. Anyone seen the new series of Ice Road Truckers? Those roads in Alaska are mad, especially the one like a rollercoaster! Oh, and minus 14, that's nothing over there! Check it out.

i havnt seen the new series ill check it out taking it its on five ye?

Yeah, certainly is. First episode was on last week.

On tonight at 8pm. Mad roads!

technique wrote:

technique wrote:

tidy pics

what sort of mpg do you get?

Depending on loads/weight/route etc..... 10mpg is a good week...... 8mpg is a bollocking!!!!

Rhosneigr Gaz wrote:

technique wrote:

technique wrote:

tidy pics

what sort of mpg do you get?

Depending on loads/weight/route etc..... 10mpg is a good week...... 8mpg is a bollocking!!!!

nearly as bad as my vr

I used to track an XR2 with carbs, 285 cam, 4 branch etc etc , 10mpg was a good day!!!! A bad day was a broken neck and back which got me in the end!!!

Rhosneigr Gaz wrote:

I used to track an XR2 with carbs, 285 cam, 4 branch etc etc , 10mpg was a good day!!!! A bad day was a broken neck and back which got me in the end!!!

christ bad one mate, you recover fully?

hey gaz ? u got a mate in rhosneigr with a black mk4 gti ? he's got a porsche in the garage ? did a job for him a while back, and he mentiond the same accident im sure ?

Yeah, that was 2001, ages ago!!!

I was luck i had put a half cage in the car, i even had the door bars just had't got round to fitting them!!!

No cage and i would have been killed!!!!

I was off work for 6 months but all good!!

My big hobby is Waterskiing and i was doing that 6 months after i snapped my spine in 3 places!

Worse i get nowdays is i sleep bad on it and get a cricked neck for a day or two!!!

OwainMK1 wrote:

hey gaz ? u got a mate in rhosneigr with a black mk4 gti ? he's got a porsche in the garage ? did a job for him a while back, and he mentiond the same accident im sure ?

It's a 4Motion, a CX51 Plate jobbie.

Hit Porker is a 944 Turbo, which i could tell u some mean stories from 10 years ago, when that car was something special!!!

Yeah Brian Entwhistle is a gd mate of mine! And a gd mechanic/engineer too!

yeah 4motion, he showed me the porker aswell, nice car. Fitted his hd box for him, was there an hr too long chattin bout cars lol. nice guy.

very lucky